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The Colorado Desert Wonders and Hidden Volcanic Vents
The article surveys the Colorado Desert’s striking features including the Salton Sink lake creation, salt beds, and salt crusts. It notes ancient mud volcanoes, submerged northern California solfataric vents, and active southern California vents near Cerro Prieta with dangerous fumes and boiling jets. Erosion by wind shapes dunes six to seven miles wide and fifty miles long, while telegraph poles endure sand abrasion. A legend ties the hurricane off Lower California to Oliver Cromwell, underscoring the region’s extreme rainfall scarcity and erratic weather patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Desert
Torsell
Sahara
Colorado
Salton
Yuma
Mexican
California
Cerro Prieta
Imperial
Gulf
Great
Utah
Arizona
North America
Southern Pacific
Lower
Cromwell